This volume analyzes Wellhausen's Göttingen licentiate doctorate for a wider audience. Alongside the original Latin text, it includes German and English translations and a transcription of the doctoral file with a German translation of the Latin sections. Moreover, it places Wellhausen's dissertation in the context of earlier and more recent research on the Chronicles and the Genealogies, and provides an extensive literary analysis of it.

Thomas Kaebel, Tübingen, Germany.